
Compliance Specialist, Prime Air, Prime Air Safety
Seattle, WAJob$83–130K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Amazon Prime Air seeks a Compliance Specialist to support internal controls, compliance assurance, and risk management across its drone delivery operations as the program expands into new markets. The role works with flight operations, ground crews, site leadership, and regulatory, safety, quality, and engineering teams. It focuses on practical compliance, operational risk, and integrating compliance into daily processes.
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Description
Compliance Specialist, Prime Air
Prime Air is seeking a motivated and experienced Compliance Specialist to join our team in Seattle. This program-level role supports internal controls, compliance assurance, and risk management across Prime Air’s drone delivery operations as we scale into new US and international markets. You will be embedded in the rhythm of daily operations—working alongside flight operations, ground crews, site leadership, regulatory, safety, quality and engineering teams to ensure compliance is practical, current, and effective in the sky and on the ground. The ideal candidate is a quick learner who can dive deep into technology or operational process one moment and pivot to an entirely different compliance domain in a different geo the next—without losing momentum.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities:
-Support regulatory compliance, auditing, risk management, and governance across Prime Air’s drone delivery program
-Investigate noncompliance concerns and recommend preventative measures
-Contribute to the design of scalable compliance programs and internal controls that address aviation regulatory and operational risk at delivery sites and across the operating network.
-Analyze operations data and compliance metrics to identify trends, validate controls, and support risk assessments that inform operational decision-making.
-Manage the day-to-day operation of the Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) program, including intake and triage of findings, identifying root cause trends, assigning and tracking corrective actions to closure, and tracking effectiveness of preventive measures.
-Monitor regulatory developments across active and planned operating regions (FAA, CAA, EASA, and other authorities) and help translate new requirements into actionable guidance for operations teams.
-Support compliance risk assessments tied to operational changes, new site launches, new aircraft configurations, and geographic expansions.
-Work collaboratively with cross-functional team members across Flight Operations, Ground Operations, Engineering, Quality, Legal, Regulatory Affairs, and Safety to support compliance integration into daily business processes.
-Support compliance documentation management and training programs.
-Innovate Culture of Compliance engagements and training programs.
About the team
How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and—most importantly—safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers and are excited for what’s to come. If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you. Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team! Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog: https:///www.aboutamazon.com/news/tag/drone
Basic Qualifications
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3+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
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3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
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Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 129,800.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 2,721 open Compliance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$83–130K/yr
- Washington median$116–165K/yr65 salary ranges
- US median$115–179K/yr1,809 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $106K, is 25% below the Washington median midpoint ($143K) — in the lowest quarter of Compliance salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 73 open Compliance jobs in Washington and 2,721 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Amazon (this employer)27 open
- HP Inc.3 open
- University of Washington3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Compliance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,292 postings).
- Education
- 1,219 of the 2,721 open Compliance jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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